Honestly I don't much care if my browser/IDE takes half a gig of RAM, even my laptop has 32GB. I'd rather buy RAM than waste programmer time, RAM is cheap, programmers are not.
(edit) Completely forgot to mention in my haste that you might not know that quite a lot of performance (read: time) optimization techniques depend on increased RAM usage - lookup maps, pre-caching, and various other things that reduce the CPU time necessary to calculate things.
Most of the time you can't have both, so pick the battle you want to argue about and stick to it. I'm sticking to programmer time.
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Honestly I don't much care if my browser/IDE takes half a gig of RAM, even my laptop has 32GB. I'd rather buy RAM than waste programmer time, RAM is cheap, programmers are not.
(edit) Completely forgot to mention in my haste that you might not know that quite a lot of performance (read: time) optimization techniques depend on increased RAM usage - lookup maps, pre-caching, and various other things that reduce the CPU time necessary to calculate things.
Most of the time you can't have both, so pick the battle you want to argue about and stick to it. I'm sticking to programmer time.